The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 42

“Ladies,” he said, “how can I thank you for what you have done for me?

Who acts: Ladies, you · What happens: say, thank, do · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ladies, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	“	"	PUNCT	_	2 Ladies	punct
2	Ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 said	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Ladies	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Ladies	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 thank	punct
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 thank	punct
9	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	10 can	advmod
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 thank	aux
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 thank	nsubj
12	thank	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 said	ccomp
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 thank	obj
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 what	case
15	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 thank	obl
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 done	nsubj
17	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 done	aux
18	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 what	acl:relcl
19	for	for	ADP	_	20 me	case
20	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 done	obl
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: ask	past	Ladies			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	thank speech: thank in a quote	can	Ladies = lady	you		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent you=Theme for what=Attribute
3	do in a quote	present · perfect	you		for Ladies = lady	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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